Tickets

10 films for $50 with punch card
$8 general admission. $7 w/UCB student ID, $7 for senior citizens
$1 discount to anyone with a bike helmet
Free on your birthday! CU Film Students get in free.

Parking

Pay lot 360 (now only $1/hour!), across from the buffalo statue and next to the Duane Physics tower, is closest to Muenzinger. Free parking can be found after 5pm at the meters along Colorado Ave east of Folsom stadium and along University Ave west of Macky.

Helena From the Wedding

DFF at IFS: vivid social combat and the disintegration of smooth façades • Muenzinger Auditorium

When a group of old friends gets together to celebrate New Year's Eve in a remote, snow-cloaked mountain cabin, it is not long before the whole gamut of their inner turmoil comes to light—the flaws and closely held secrets, resentments and insecurities of middle-aged people trying to survive in a bewildering world. Taking a couple of structural and dramatic clues from classics like The Big Chill and Ordinary People, Helena from the Wedding keeps its collective voice down and depends instead on a subtle range of actorly gesture and nuance.

At the heart of first-time writer/director Joseph Infantolino’s drama is Alex Javal (poker-faced Lee Tergesen, late of the HBO hit Oz), a failed playwright whose recent career plunge makes him vulnerable to emotional jitters and sensitive to perceived slights. Alex's new wife, Alice (Melanie Lynskey), complicates the picture—especially since some of his friends' marriages are starting to show signs of wear. Mix in the arrival of a disturbingly beautiful (and unmistakably younger) force named Helena (Gillian Jacobs), and the stage is set for some vivid social combat and the disintegration of of a few previously smooth façades.

Infantolino, who for the last decade has been producing films such as Jim McKay's Our Song and David Schwimmer's directorial debut Run, Fatboy, Run, says the idea for Helena from the Wedding grew out of his own midlife marriage, which contrasted sharply with some of the weather-beaten unions of old friends.

Helena From the Wedding

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Tickets
IFS tickets are only available at the door on day of show. With 400 seats and
rare sell-outs, by arriving a bit early you're almost certainly guaranteed a
seat. We're happy to save seats for anyone traveling from afar--just let us
know how many people are in your group by email. Tickets go on sale 30 minutes
before showtime.

IFS screens films in Muenzinger
Auditorium, west of Folsom Football Stadium. First Person Cinema events screen
in the VAC basement auditorium on select Mondays. Celebrating Stan screens
in ATLAS 100. Admission (unless otherwise noted): $8 general admission, $7 w/UCB student ID,
$7 for senior citizens. We give a $1
discount to anyone with a bike helmet, and you can see movies for free on
your birthday, or if you are assisting someone in a wheelchair. Credit cards
are accepted at the door

If you want to be
guaranteed a seat please arrive early. Tickets go on sale 30 minutes
before showtime.